For English class i need to write a fable..help..?

Question

Im doing the holocaust, and and we have to write a fable about it. its can be at most 3 pages long. Basically we are poking fun at something in history that happpend that we think poorly of. Hence i chose the holocaust.im havning difficulty writing it though...any suggestions?? also...the chareters do have to be all animals.
THANKSS

let me refrase this. i need to write a 1-3 page fable about the holocausst. we are writing only ONE little event that happpends. Basically we are poking fun at, or for better words, showing how ridiculous it is that this happened. im having trouble with that part though...

any ideas??

anything is helpful. thank youu

Answer 1

A fable is a tale with a moral. Telling one about the holocaust does not compare the holocaust to a fable or deny it. The idea is a good one because it picks up an important point of world history that we know a lot a about.

The Book Animal Farm (http://books.google.com/books?id=SGAZdjNfruYC&dq=&pg=PP1&ots=vrP3ZhmWTK&sig=2VexgevutgX4oK8vyeoNL5tt7ms&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fsourceid%3Dnavclient%26aq%3Dt%26ie%3DUTF-8%26rlz%3D1T4WZPA_enUS224US224%26q%3DAnimal%2BFarm%2Bby%2Bgeorge%2Borwell&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title) is a version of this that uses Communism, in Russia, as its basis. So that is a good place to start. You can use the movie Chicken Coop for some inspiration on animal characters. Animal Farm Quotes: (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4WZPA_enUS224US224&q=Animal+Farm+quotations) could be included and cited in your paper to tie it to the George Orwell Novel.

Start with a farm where the animals can talk and the farmers that run the farm leave or are killed. Then have one animal take over; probably cows, chickens, or pigs. Chickens would be better because you can "conduct" a genetic analysis by examining an egg in a bright light.

A group of mean chickens lead by an insane rooster (Hitler) would take control. Look up Hitler's cronies like Herman Goering for other characters. Find out how ran the SS and the Gestapo and use those as major characters.

Then have then inspect eggs for "racial purity" and segregate the hens that produced the "bad" eggs. Those hens could be set aside to go into a slaughter house. You can have a factory that churns out smoke like the furnaces or you could create a mass killing method that would cut off all the hen's heads at once to simulate the gas chamber and other methods used. A poison gas would render the hen meat unfit to eat.

You could have the factory produce chicken feather pillows; pot pies (like in the movie Chicken Coop) or other chicken meals, make lamps out of chicken claws and some of the other gross things that the Nazis did with the remains. They pulled out the gold; they stripped off the skin to make lamp shades and tried to make a profit off of the killing.

Meanwhile the local town of Germans ignored, or didn’t want to know, what was going on. Imagine what your heroic animals will feel when they find a nearby chicken ranch that is running well, but supplying hens that produce “bad” eggs to the chicken death camp.

Maybe you could poke fun at a famous experiment and use the racial purity trait to be blue eyes or brown eyes. All other chickens are inferior and those with green eyes are hated by everyone. Of course most chickens have brown eyes ONLY. In this experiment a class room of children were told that blue eyed people were better so prejudice was born; then the experiment was reversed. You can then poke fun at the idea that something as simple as color should be a deciding factor on who is superior.

Then you could have one insane hen perform dangerous and lethal experiments on “bad hens” to lampoon what Dr. Mengele did (http://www.featheredtrumpet.com/For_Dr_Men.pdf). Imagine scenes where you see how much air pressure a bad hen can take and you explode them with an air compressor.

You would need a heroic group that could come in and liberate the imprisoned hens; maybe cows or pigs. Wolves are too close to dogs and wolves would just eat them all. Pigs eat anything so you might want to stick with cattle.

The liberating cows could come or maybe a group of appalled swans or geese or other chickens would be better. Let's say the geese come in to liberate the hens. You can have them using cows as tanks and dropping bombs in flight formations; or using pigeons to deploy bombs.

The hard part is to conclude with a moral as most fables do. It is hard to sum the holocaust up in simple terms. A quote from the bible comes to mind "Judge not, least ye be judged." You might want to research the Jewish Torah for a better quote.

This is going to be a pretty sick project so you might want to make it very sick and revolting to emphasize the revolting nature of The Holocaust. In that case I would award your paper an R rating and include that in the first paragraph. “This paper is rated ‘R’ Nazi supporters, and those with weak stomachs are not allowed to read the paper without parental permission.”

Answer 2

Making fun of the Holocaust. What kind of twisted humor do you have?

Why not cast Hitler as a baker who happened to run out of bread because of the inflation of the mark in his time period?

The only way you can get away with making fun of the Holocaust is being Jewish your self, for a lot of it will be about making fun of the Jewish that suffered. Poking fun at any thing else is not going to get results. Sorry.

Unfortunately I cannot tell you any more ideas because I am not.

The only other idea I can give you is be Hitchhiker guide to the universe unreal to satirize the problems when a goverment gains too much control (Hitler did the same as Stalin in order to purge his nation of certain people so did Saddam.) That is the only way you can pull it off with out the expected bread jokes. The fable can make fun of the subject (goverment getting too oppressive.) and the moral of the story will be what happens when the goverment gets too out of hand. This would be easy for Hitler was trying to implement a new religion based on Aryan race and on the occult. Dig deeper into this and you could have a field day with it.

For inspriration, I suggestion reading Orwell's The Farm.

Answer 3

why don't you just do it the simple way. just take the plot of the holocaust and "kid-"dify it. take some character names out of the holocaust and assign them to the animals of your choice. when you've got the basics covered, you could start writing the story. don't be afraid if it's more than one page, you could always make a story long if you add details and a few dialogues here and there. stick to the plot and don't make the story too complicated or it won't even be like a fable anymore.

and last, but not the least! all fables have MORAL LESSONS.

well then, good luck, mate.

Answer 4

you can maybe try and base it off of known fables, but use things from the holocaust. the point is not that it is false but that fable is using animals to tell a moral story. Like the boy who cried wolf, the sky that is falling, or the little engine that could. Take one of those known stories and twist it into one that fits the holocaust.

Answer 5

Hmmm...a fable about the holocaust involving animals...
Sounds like you need an oppressive animal type, probably a pig or such, and have them oppressing another animal for ridiculous reasons. To choose this animal, think of one that is commonly cooked alive in ovens.

Just branch out from there.

Answer 6

yikes that is a difficult period of history to write a fable about.

Dr Seuss - The Sneetches comes to mind with their imagined superiority in having stars on their bellies. Perhaps you can model your story after that story of prejudice
Aaryan pigeons (white albino) versus the rest of pigeon kind.

Answer 7

Sorry, I can't think of any way you could poke fun at the Holocaust. It was just too horrific, too unbelievable and too horrendous to have even a shred of humor about it.

Answer 8

Fables? Aren't fables myth? The holocaust isn't a myth. Let me guess are you from IRAN?

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000376.shtml

Answer 9

Did you know that Ronald Reagan invented AIDs because he hates black people? You better vote Democrat!?

Answer 10

hahaha chose something different! writers block? sweet go smoke some weed!